[Hallicrafters] Silver panel S-36A -- and Parts Available

[Mike Everette]

This radio isn't an RBK-16; I used to have one of
those years ago (wish I still did!) and that panel was
smooth Navy gray.  This one's apparently a
WW2-production set with the leather-textured panel
like on the SX-28, but it is definitely silver.  I
tried to discover whether there is black underneath,
but there does not seem to be; and all the
through-panel screw holes, bezel openings etc are
silver throughout.

I tentatively agree that the former owner may have
been trying to make this radio into "something else." 
He seems to have done a lot of that, and also was a
master home brewer whose work looks better than
factory stuff.  I have a beautiful general-coverage
and bandspread receiver that he built in the early
1950s, and had to look really close to realize it
wasn't some kind of factory prototype.  The circular
metal dial (resembling that of an SX-17) is hand
calibrated over TEN bands (GC and bandspread on the
same disc), using metal die stamps as a followup to
pencil markings.  It must have taken forever.

73

Mike
WA4DLF

--- "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/4/07, Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > We've heard about silver or "chrome" SX-28
> receivers,
> > and I have seen pictures of them; but never a
> 36...
> > well, this one came out of an estate. 
> Unfortunately
> > the radio is not complete, missing the entire
> front
> > end assembly and the S-meter; but the panel is
> indeed
> > silver, and I don't think it's an overspray job.
> > There is a small patch of missing paint on the
> panel,
> > and underneath it's some sort of anodized brassy
> or
> > gold looking finish; but no sign of black paint. 
> Both
> > sides are silver.  The control markings are not
> filled
> > in with a dark color.  The dial bezel is the usual
> > black.
> 
> Mike -
> 
> The silver SX-28s I've seen were all bare, polished
> metal. No paint
> beyond the lettering. Since it's painted, I have to
> ask: is it
> actually a light gray color? If so, it could be the
> last of the line,
> RBK-16. The dial bezel/escutcheon would likely have
> no model number
> stamped in it either. Pretty scarce rig, actually.
> Of the few I've
> seen, this is how they all looked.
> 
> OTOH, if it's really painted silver and missing
> parts, maybe the
> former owner was rebuliding it and never got it
> completed?
> 
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
>
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